Guild Wars 2

Hi everyone.. I just wanted to know what everyone think about adding new classes for content in this game. I am an avid Moba player and whenever I hear a new hero or champion is teased for upcoming release, my excitement for the game came back.

Now I really think that guild wars 2 spvp is great and it is definitely different from other mmo out there. Granted, i think the spvp was horrible back in 2012 when it was just mostly Hotjoin, but With the addition of unranked, ranked, and custom arena, the spvp has become something unique and different than any other mmo pvp out there.
The reason of this for me would be, you get to play with different builds for each classes, different game modes and get to use a lot of different outfits/dye.

I really think that gw 2 spvp can surpass moba popularity if Anet commercialized and focuses more on spvp and adding more content through new classes, traits, pvp modes, pvp maps, etc. The Heart of thorns expansion will surely help with this, but what do you guys think of adding more classes in the future as spvp content ?
I think that this game has a lot of potential in the spvp side of things, it just need some tweaks and more classes in spvp to play to set it apart from the other game.

People probably don’t know this, but a lot of players that bought this game in 2012 didn’t even get to try the spvp because they get a bad impression from how different gw2 pve is. My friend would be another example of this, he doesn’t like gw 2 because of how the pve work ( that and the guardian class ), but after i introduce him to spvp and how things work there, he literally got hooked to the game after not touching it for 3 years.

long story short…Spvp is a gem because it has a lot of potential to be a different game and it can attract lots of players that enjoy competitive gaming ( moba players ). One way to add more content to spvp which i love would be adding more classes to the game
( maybe 12 classes by 2017 ? Monk anyone ? ).
I know that its hard to balance and etc, but i really think that spvp content is something worth investing.

Just a moba player opinion though.

I would like to hear other players opinion about this.. Would people rather have Anet investing more of their time for spvp, pve or wvw ?

i dont think we will get another class after the revenant and tbh im fine with that.
with every coming expansion they will introduce 1 new specialisation for every class which is enough. if they release expansions every year or 1.5 year i don’t have any concerns regarding class and build diversity.

what this game needs is a better matchmaking and leaderboards with rewards, ingame tournaments (+ the esl and whatever else we have), more pvp exclusive and more frequent balance changes.

if sPvP was a standalone PvP it would be way more popular than it is now. i think pvp would really benefit if (pvp only) was made f2p for the vanilla classes and skills/traits.

we’re going in the right direction, gw2 pvp could be so much. now it’s up to anet (and a bit to the community).

Competitive gaming… Sure ^^, I hate mobas except maybe Gigantic but there usually needs to be a purpose to PvP, if it’s just LB and you have bad balance you are asking for trouble, MOBA’s are easier to balance and mechanics work differently. GW2 is special primarily due to no needed traditional trinity that’s the hook, they have potential but not the spirit so far. I am one to wish all modes were one but GW2 is for casuals.

HoT is too vague on what it will accomplish for now.

I think we need to see how specializations will work, in the anet idea, they should really differentiate professions, so i think their goal will be add more specializations to actual profs instead od adding new profs.

Specializations could add a lot of diversity in the game.

yeah i agree on specializations is another thing that can add diversity to the game. @Jektt It almost felt like if anet focuses more on spvp, we would’ve have what you suggested earlier. Expansion every 1.5 year would definitely prolong the game ( I would hope new classes would come with this )

@sagat yeah its true that gw 2 classes are hard to balance because of the whole traditional not needed trinity system, but i think human creativity shouldn’t be limited and i’m sure anet can balance more future classes ( if they are thinking of adding one ) or maybe even get some community ideas. During the old days of dota 1 (2004) Icefrog the creator of dota 1 relied a lot on the community to design most of his heroes

I myself doesn’t enjoy gw 2 pve (it is still good though) that much, although i love the spvp.

I don’t think more classes are in that much needed at the moment to be honest, I’d rather they fixed up current issues and improved the current classes than create even more issues by introducing several new classes.